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Tracks of the Year
A Family Affair: Quietus Writers Pick Their Favourite Tracks Of 2013 So Far
Quietus writers and staff have chosen their favourite tracks of the year so far for your delectation. Contains monstrously long Spotify playlist. Where's my damn croissants says John Doran after two days of compiling
A Quietus Interview
The Deserters’ Songs: Rachel Zeffira Interviewed
Rachel Zeffira steps away from her Cats Eyes project to set up a label and release her first solo album, The Deserters. Luke Turner speaks to her about the LP, growing up in a Canadian smelting town, and an unfortunate incident involving an oboe and a tattoo
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A Quietus Interview
Finding The Essence: Kangding Ray Interviewed
With his contribution to Stroboscopic Artefacts' new EP helping celebrate the label's fifth birthday just out, Theo Darton-Moore talks to the producer about his evolving aesthetic and taking a meticulous approach to track construction
A Quietus Interview
A Distant Radiating Orb: Barn Owl Interviewed
With new album V, Bay Area duo Barn Owl soar into more overtly electronic territories than ever before, infusing the gorgeous, glacial drones of their earlier work with a dub-inspired sense of shifting space. Ned Raggett catches up with them to discuss this gradual evolution
A Quietus Interview
Machine Gun: An Interview With Evian Christ
On the eve of the release of Evian Christ's punishing new EP for Tri Angle and ahead of shows at Field Day and Sonar, he meets up with Daniel Cohen to discuss physicality in sound, working with Kanye for Yeezus, and discovering the sweet spot between EDM and abrasive noise
A Quietus Interview
Subconscious Broadcasts: An Interview With Throwing Shade
Before she plays the Tate Modern's Turbine Festival this weekend, the producer and genre-scouring NTS DJ talks to Olivia Cheves about her ethnomusicology studies, sampling internet pornography and flipping music industry image conventions. Photographs courtesy of Rosie Harriet Ellis
A Quietus Interview
A Taste Of Divine: Remembering The Legendary Glasgow Club
David Peschek remembers recently-deceased Glasgow club Divine as he speaks to the likes of founder Andrew Divine, JD Twitch from Optimo, Stephen Pastel and Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian, who recalls the time he wore a dress... Oh, and there's a mix too.
